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SERIES – On Skid Row: Part Five, Afterword

PART 5 OF 5 (With follow-ups to come) – For full series, click here.
I’d like to thank everyone who’s made such a point to tell me that by watching this film series, their perceptions of homelessness in Los Angeles has really been altered. Over and over again I’ve heard: “Seeing the series made me want [...]

WOW. What a crazy week.

To quote my friend Dennis, “This city just got a lot smaller.”
Our site was down overnight, sorry. But it’s your fault so please bear with me while I ramble for a moment here. We had so many visitors yesterday that it crashed the server and everything had to be migrated elsewhere. It blows my mind. [...]

SERIES – On Skid Row: Part Four, God

PART 4 OF 5 – For full series, click here.
Los Angeles’ homeless community isn’t exactly hidden, yet poverty is a particularly easy issue to ignore as we go about our busy days, driving through the city streets at high speeds worrying about our own problems. I hope you’ll stop and take a minute to watch [...]

SERIES – On Skid Row: Part Three, Drugs

PART 3 OF 5 – For full series, click here.
Los Angeles’ homeless community isn’t exactly hidden, yet poverty is a particularly easy issue to ignore as we go about our busy days, driving through the city streets at high speeds worrying about our own problems. I hope you’ll stop and take a minute to watch [...]

SERIES – On Skid Row: Part Two, Kids

PART 2 OF 5 – For full series, click here.
Los Angeles’ homeless community isn’t exactly hidden, yet poverty is a particularly easy issue to ignore as we go about our busy days, driving through the city streets at high speeds worrying about our own problems. I hope you’ll stop and take a minute to watch [...]

SERIES – On Skid Row: Part One, Introduction

Between December 2005 and March 2006, journalist Sam Slovick wrote a stunning and insightful series of LA Weekly cover stories that took readers “deep inside the everyday tragedies and triumphs found on Downtown Los Angeles’s Skid Row.” These stories were then turned into a documentary series by GOOD Magazine (a “collaboration of individuals, businesses, and [...]